Responding to Firearm Possession Charges in New York City

Initial Findings from the Multimethod Evaluation of the Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention Program (BOGAP) July 2026 by Kathleen A. Tomberg, Rebecca Balletto, Gina Moreno, Sheyla A. Delgado, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Patricia Cobar and Jeffrey A. Butts Conducted with funding from the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice Abstract The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center evaluated the Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability … Continue reading Responding to Firearm Possession Charges in New York City

Social Harms of the CVI Binary

A community-leveraged, public health approach to CVI is likely the best, most cost-effective strategy for building safe and healthy communities. But, evidence for the approach is not yet durable. It is just flimsy enough to be cast aside by conservative lawmakers and unimaginative funders dazzled by the decades of research on more easily proven, individually-oriented approaches to public safety. Continue reading Social Harms of the CVI Binary